linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm-current tree with the tip tree

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Date:   Mon, 14 Aug 2017 20:54:25 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>,
        Linus <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm-current tree with the tip
 tree

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 12:09:14PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> @@ -446,9 +450,7 @@ void tlb_finish_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
>  	 *
>  	 */
>  	bool force = mm_tlb_flush_nested(tlb->mm);
> -
>  	arch_tlb_finish_mmu(tlb, start, end, force);
> -	dec_tlb_flush_pending(tlb->mm);
>  }

No, I think this breaks all the mm_tlb_flush_pending() users. They need
the decrement to not be visible until the TLB flush is complete.